We have a more than 20-year history of producing powerful results for our clients, but don’t just take our word for it. Browse examples of why our clients love to work with us and the impact we’ve helped them to make.

“They are very outcome and solution focused …. they facilitate to an outcome. The materials they develop are extremely well-informed, accessible, and useful to us and the partners working on the project. I also appreciate that they get right to the point in meetings and they are very clear on timeline, budgets, required staffing and next steps.”

The Office of Community Living was created as a merger of two separate Divisions. After 4 years of working side by side, Office leadership sought to more fully integrate operations to ensure efficiencies, reduce duplications, and most importantly to produce better outcomes for the organizations and people they serve. Nonprofit Impact was hired to create an integration plan. Implementation of the plan, based on interviews with 100+ staff people and the work of a project team, has resulted in more effective collaboration, deeper appreciation and understanding of roles across the office, and more streamlined services, according to staff. In addition, Nonprofit Impact was hired to help staff build an outcome-based approach to technical assistance, based on in depth interviews with the agency’s partners. The final product helped staff revamp their services to be much more coordinated internally and more useful externally.

“The Nonprofit Impact team brings a lot of knowledge and experience on organizational development. They were able to quickly understand the work our office does in order to formulate the plan and allow us to move forward. They are friendly and approachable, deliver quality products and meet their deadlines – they’re on top of things!” – Case Management Services Coordinator, Office of Community Living, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing

“Shelli was easy to work with … she intellectually challenged us in our thought process. She helped to lead us to the conclusions we were struggling with but knew we needed to get to.”

– President of the Board of Trustees, Inland Northwest Land Conservancy

Inland Northwest Land Conservancy is a 26-year-old land trust working across a 10-county region in Eastern WA and Western ID. Conservation Impact completed an organizational needs assessment, developed a strategic action plan, and worked with staff to ensure implementation. Conservation Impact staff supported staff and the board while the organization was in between directors, and helped to hire the right person for the job. Having a strategic plan, improved processes, and clarified roles in place, INLC had their “house in order” so new leadership “could hit the ground running.”

“I was concerned that we had already done strategic plans and recommendations in the past but the follow through was the hardest bit. Shelli was there to ensure that there were not only recommendations but that there was an action plan and accountability.” – Associate Director, Inland Northwest Land Conservancy

“Shelli was a very good communicator. She was able to boil information down to its essence, capture it and redistribute it for review, which was a huge time savings for leadership. And her tenacity in staying with the project and not allowing people to sit on the sidelines was very important because we needed everyone to be a player… She possessed all of the skills we needed because if we were going to spend state resources on a project, we needed to get to an outcome where our constituents would benefit. For us, that’s critical.”

– Deputy State Forester, Colorado State Forest Service

The Colorado State Forest Service was founded over 100 years ago. Over the past few years the organization has had a substantial change to its mission and role in protecting the State’s forests. The organizational “model”-its focus, programs, staffing, structure, and resource allocation- needed to catch up to that change. With over 100 employees and 17 field offices, they needed a consultant to help them address challenging issues and chart the path for reinvention. Conservation Impact completed an organizational analysis and then worked with the leadership team to create a business plan, with a detailed implementation schedule. The leadership team has steadfastly implemented the plan- they have reorganized, created more cross functional teams, redefined how the agency generates and allocates funds, defined their target markets, and created a new management team with clear roles and responsibilities.

“Shelli‘s help was invaluable. At the end of the day with a finished product, she still stayed engaged as we were putting together the pieces. She holds us accountable, which is exactly what we need… Shelli has an impressive track record and her history helped us be more confident.” – State Forester, Colorado State Forest Service

“We shared [the organizational development plan] verbatim with more than 5 influential foundations and ultimately received significant funding from 4 of them.”

“Our experience working with Conservation Impact was fantastic. Conservation Impact exhibited a high degree of organization through all aspects of the work. From document/data collection, adherence to timelines, and attention to detail, the projects were simply managed very well.

The organizational development plan gave us a roadmap for funding that we were able to share with several key foundation partners. The report was so complete, and yet also so easy to understand, that we shared it verbatim with more than 5 influential foundations and ultimately received significant funding from 4 of them.”

Deschutes Land TrustOrganizational Assessment and Development Plan, 2012

“The entire process from beginning to end was enlightening and worthwhile; the impact of the good work resulting from this process still resonates to this day.”

“We worked with Nonprofit Impact in 2012 to develop a strategic plan for our NYS Department of Health Bureau of Chronic Disease Control which houses many of the Department’s cancer prevention and control programs. The entire process from beginning to end was enlightening and worthwhile; the impact of the good work resulting from this process still resonates to this day.

Since working with Nonprofit Impact and developing our bureau strategic framework, we have been able to accomplish meaningful bureau reorganization, clarification around our main purpose and how that is specifically operationalized in our day-to-day work, implementation of demonstration projects that are helping to inform what our future use of funding will be, and the writing of successful grant applications in the areas of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening as well as collaborative funding opportunities with our state Medicaid program.”

New York State Department of Health | Bureau of Chronic Disease Control, Strategic Framework, 2012

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“Nonprofit Impact has greatly contributed to our organization’s culture change by providing our staff with coaching and training on how we can systematize outcome-based TA for our Training and TA program delivery. One year later, we are successfully transforming our daily practice and how we work with our membership based on the tangible instruction and framework that Shelli has helped us to create.” – Tiffany J. Netters, Director of Health Policy and Governmental Affairs

Louisiana Primary Care Association

Strategic Plan, Training 2018

“Thanks in large part to you, we have are clearly on a path to success… I will forever be in awe of your ability to synthesize the complex and create order and meaning.” – Yvonne Smith, board member

“A vision without a plan is a dream. Shelli and her team provided the Special Forces Charitable Trust (SFCT) with the tools, leadership, and experience that has taken the SFCT from infancy to providing sustainable and meaningful programs in just 4 years.” – David Guernsey, Executive Director

Special Forces Charitable Trust

Business Plan Blueprint, 2017

“Conservation Impact helped Saratoga PLAN’s Board identify our most immediate challenges and develop a practical business plan for the next stage of the organization’s maturation. Shelli worked in a very efficient but deep way to understand the context for our work. Even though she has helped hundreds of clients, she has a very personal and respectful approach which manifests into a highly customized business blueprint.” – Maria Trabka, Executive Director

Saratoga PLAN

Strategic Plan, 2016

“This was the most meaningful and valuable board retreat we’ve ever had.”

Deschutes Land Trust

Organizational Assessment, 2015

“Nonprofit Impact was a fabulous boost to our organization’s first-ever strategic planning process. Shelli was incredibly thorough, insightful, and a masterful facilitator in moving our board, staff, and teen council members from discussion to a mutually-shared vision and steps to get there.

Our new strategic framework has given us the guidance to restructure our program staff roles and responsibilities and has helped identify new opportunities for us to address organizational sustainability. It wasn’t just a planning process that started and ended, but one that is continuing to evolve as we work toward our new 5-year goals.”

Rise Above Colorado

Strategic Plan, 2015

“After spending 2014 working with you, I believe the Commission is much better aligned for future success and now able to work on increasing our security for the day that our financial or political support takes a hit.”

Albany Pine Brush Preserve Commission

Marketing Plan, 2015

“We are doing great things and were very successful in getting grants to support our strategic plan. Yes, we still use it! I am so proud of the strides we made here and you helped us vision the possibilities!”

New York State Department of Health

Integrated Plan, 2015

We just completed a two-year evaluation of our plan, and we have either met, exceeded, or are on track for all our activities. We set a target of funding 5 school districts but were actually able to fund 9 in FY14. We took the leap of faith to develop the program before we had funds, and then exceeded our funding expectations.

“My managers and staff often refer to the plan and the work around it, so I know we made an impact!!”

Garfield County Public Health

Strategic Plan, 2014

“Great content—love the easy to implement tools.”

“The handouts and examples were wonderful.”

“Great resource to use in setting up partnerships.”

Interact for Health

Training: Successful Collaboration for Healthy Communities, 2014

“I can’t tell you how valuable those two session were for me. We are already putting into practice a lot of your principles and are having great conversations about who we are and who is our audience.”

Lower Merion Conservancy

Strategic Plan, 2014

“Although I felt I had a great understanding going into this workshop, I gained great tips across the board in all areas to strengthen what we’re doing. Presenter had great, realistic ideas we can use.”

Interact for Health

Training: How to Develop Strategic, Successful Special Events, 2014

“The content made great sense, was very relevant to our coordinated chronic disease work, gives clear voice to the issues surrounding integration, and will help give ourselves permission to focus.”

Michigan Department of Public Health

Integration Webinar, 2014

“Much of our recent success is, I think, directly traceable to the inspiration and direction your Audience Development Plan gave us to really ‘live the promise of our brand’ in serving our constituents in an authentic way that deeply connects with their needs and lifestyle choices to be in, connect with, and support nature.”

Mohonk Preserve

Audience Development Plan, 2014

“Working with Shelli and Conservation Impact was one of the most successful and rewarding endeavors of my career.”

US Forest Service | Florida National Scenic Trail

Partnership Plan, 2014

“Thanks to you and the Conservation Impact team, we were able to get clarity and resolution on issues with which we’d been struggling for years! I am in awe of all we were able to accomplish in a 1.5-day meeting. Your dedication to action and unequivocal outcomes was evident each time we met. There is no doubt our conservation efforts on the Florida National Scenic Trail will be more effective because of you.”

US Forest Service | Florida National Scenic Trail

Partnership Plan, 2014

“We hired Nonprofit Impact with a goal of developing a joint strategic plan with a partner agency with whom we had worked for many years. We quickly realized we had work to do, within each organization to revisit our business models, and across organizations to define roles within the partnership and goals for the alliance. Both organizations are entities of the state with complex systems, and there were a number of new staff. Shelli expertly kept our focus on the tasks at hand and our shared goals for the future. She provided a combination of organizational development, professional coaching, and strategic planning, and we are still applying the lessons learned to this day.”

Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust

Partnership Plan, 2013

“I’ve been in the nonprofit world for a long time but seldom have found professional consultants that brought such clarity to the business of running a nonprofit.”

OASIS-Albuquerque

Training: Integrated Strategy 2011

“We regional managers were dubious having been through this type of process so many times before. Your refreshing acknowledgement of just how painful processes like this can be was so helpful. Clearly you have found your niche, your ‘distinctive competence’ was evident.”

NY Department of Health

Strategic Plan, 2011

“Best Healthy Communities training to date!!”

“Fantastic—decision makers needed to be here!”

Spokane Regional Health District

Training: Partner Relations, 2011

“Not only are we using our strategic plan, it’s created a clear focus for everything we’re doing.”

Directors of Health Promotion and Education

Strategic Plan, 2010

“I would wholeheartedly recommend Conservation Impact’s services. Their staff is very talented, experienced, and professional. It was a really good and organizationally insightful final report. The Conservation Impact team really knows their stuff.”

Ducks Unlimited

Communications Plan, 2010

“Thanks again for an awesome meeting. I cannot stop thinking about the importance of this past weekend. You told the truth, avoided masking difficult tasks, and you did not claim any easy victories. Your assessment (and planning efforts) more than exceeded my expectations. Every Board member was impressed with you and the frank nature in which you delivered the message.”

Directors of Health Promotion and Education

Strategic Plan, 2010

“This was the first session that addressed strategic planning that made sense in a non-bureaucratic way!”

Land Trust Alliance Rally

Strategic Positioning Presentation, 2009

“Your presentation was great. You have a wonderful way of distilling the concepts down to their core, helping us to remember that we constantly need to ask ourselves: will this action help the organization to thrive?”

Essex County Greenbelt Association

Strategic Positioning Presentation, 2009

“You did a great job handling the strategic planning workshop. I was impressed how you were able to keep the group on point, manage some strong and vocal personalities, and craft language which presented an acceptable compromise between differing points of view and sometimes doing all of these at the same time.”

NY-NJ Trail Conference

Strategic Plan, 2009

“Your presentation was excellent, and I am very pleased that someone finally understands sustainability in the community and nonprofits. I have looked far and wide and for a long time with little success on sustainability—I learned so much from you! Thank you!”

Denver Public Health

Training: Sustainability, 2007

“Of all the consultants we have had over the 15 years I have been here, no one has helped us to be more transformative and to act on what we learned for the advancement of our mission.”